* In ''Film/{{Conspiracy}}'', Dr. Kritzinger relates a story to Reinhard Heydrich as a warning to what he is trying to accomplish at the conference (the extermination of the Jewish people), which Heydrich later relates in turn to Müller and Eichmann at the end. It concerns a boyhood friend of Kritzinger, who [[OedipusComplex hated his abusive father fiercely but was devoted to his loving mother]]. When his mother died some years later, the man tried to cry as her casket was lowered into the grave, but wasn’t able to. When his father died at a much older age, the man couldn't control his tears. The moral of the story is that being consumed by hatred for something will mean that once that thing is gone, the hater's life will be nothing but a hollow shell anymore.

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* In ''Film/{{Conspiracy}}'', Dr. Kritzinger relates a story to Reinhard Heydrich as a warning to what he is trying to accomplish at the conference (the extermination of the Jewish people), which Heydrich later relates in turn to Müller and Eichmann at the end. It concerns a boyhood friend of Kritzinger, who [[OedipusComplex hated his abusive father fiercely but was devoted to his loving mother]]. When his mother died some years later, the man tried to cry as her casket was lowered into the grave, but wasn’t wasn't able to. When his father died at a much older age, the man couldn't control his tears. The moral of the story is that being consumed by hatred for something will mean that once that thing is gone, the hater's life will be nothing but a hollow shell anymore.

\n[[AC:LiveActionTV]]\n* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': Most of the in-universe book ''The Way of Kings'' (which is also the [[Literature/TheWayOfKings title of the first book in the series]]) consists of parables from the author's life, similar to the Bible. The book became the foundation of the [[KnightInShiningArmor Knights Radiant]] and was required reading for every Alethi ruler, but then the knights fell, and the Alethi went from a ProudWarriorRace to {{Blood Knight}}s. By the time of the story, it's considered nearly blasphemous for such things as suggesting that sometimes there are better solutions than killing everyone.

--->'''Margaret:''' Well… the first year he came, we all of us, the girls in that place, we thought it magical. The second year, we laughed behind our hands at the odd man and his tatters, and the third year we didn't even go, because "The Mountains of Mourne" was all that little rooster could ever do.

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--->'''Margaret:''' Well… Well, the first year he came, we all of us, the girls in that place, we thought it magical. The second year, we laughed behind our hands at the odd man and his tatters, and the third year we didn't even go, because "The Mountains of Mourne" was all that little rooster could ever do.

* Bacon in 'Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels' tell the guys the story of Smithy Robinson, a old geezer beaten to death with a "15-inch black rubber cock" as a warning tale of what happens to the people that don't pay [[AxCrazy Hatchet Harry]] what they own him.

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* Bacon in 'Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels' ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'' tell the guys the story of Smithy Robinson, a old geezer beaten to death with a "15-inch black rubber cock" as a warning tale of what happens to the people that don't pay [[AxCrazy Hatchet Harry]] what they own him.

* Bacon in 'Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels' tell the guys the story of Smithy Robinson, a old geezer beaten to death with a "15-inch black rubber cock" as a warning tale of what happens to the people that don't pay [[AxCrazy Hatchet Harry]] what they own him.

* ''Film/{{Serpico}}''. When Serpico expresses his anger that he's regarded with suspicion because he's the only detective in their division who isn't corrupt, his girlfriend tells him a story of a WickedWitch who poisoned a well and drove everyone mad, except for the king who hadn't drunk from the well. So the townspeople decide to kill the king because he is 'insane', until the king too drinks for the well and goes crazy too. "And the next day there was much rejoicing as the king had regained his sanity."-->'''Serpico:''' I think you're trying to tell me something.

-> ''"Now, this is a story all about how''-> ''My life got flipped, turned upside down''-> ''And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there''-> ''I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air!"''-->-- Theme song of ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir''

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-> ''"Now, this is a story all about how''-> ''My life got flipped, turned upside down''-> ''And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there''-> ''I'll tell --> ''"Do you wanna know how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air!"''got these scars?"''-->-- Theme song of ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'''''[[SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker Joker]]''', ''Film/TheDarkKnight''

Reason: The former quote wasn't an example of the trope, and the new one is shorter.

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